Hamdy Mubarak holds a BSc. in Computer Science from the Faculty of Engineering, Alexandria University in Egypt (Distinct with a degree of honor) in 1992. He was the Arabic NLP R&D manager at Sakhr Software until 2013 working on morphological, syntactic, and semantic disambiguation of Arabic and building commercial NLP applications (for WHO (Canada), governments, and major banks in the MENA region). He led the team that built the first morphological analyzer, diacritizer, spelling and grammar checker, and information extraction for Arabic documents in the 90s. He also participated in Rule-based MT, OCR, TTS, and Search Engine projects and all of these projects are multi-award-winners in the region and globally (NIST USA and Canada, Gitex UAE, KUWAIT, etc.)

He joined QCRI in 2014 (currently is a Principal Software Engineer), and he participated in building state-of-the-art tools for processing the standard, classical, and dialectal varieties of Arabic (farasa.qcri.org), QATS Speech Transcription and Translation (qats.qcri.org and st.qcri.org), IYAS Question Answering, and Fake News Detection (tanbih.org) projects in addition to leading the efforts in offensive language and hate speech detection, spam, adult content detection, etc. (asad.qcri.org). He participated in building the Arabic Large Language Model (Fanar.qa) which achieved best results of language capabilities and culture alignment on standard benchmarks. He also participated in building the speech recognition system for Modern standard Arabic (MSA) and its dialects (Kanari.ai), and converting text to speech for MSA and dialects.

He co-authored ~140 papers since he joined QCRI in Computational Linguistics conferences (ACL, NAACL, EMNLP, SemEval, CONLL, EACL, LREC, etc.), Speech conferences (IEEE SLT, ASRU, IWSLT), journals (IPM, NLE), and social computing (ICWSM, SocInfo, WebSci). He co-published some books and has a patent under his name about using machine translation technologies to build state-of-the-art Arabic diacritizer.

He worked also as a Software Engineering Manager at Ellipsis Digital Systems, a US-based company, in the field of digital communications between 2001 and 2003.

Hamdy Mubarak holds a BSc. in Computer Science from the Faculty of Engineering, Alexandria University in Egypt (Distinct with a degree of honor) in 1992.